www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...-video-technology-poor-penalty-decisions.html In light of all the referreing howlers this season (the easy ones that is) Wba do have big point. I am sure that they would get support from our own manager Steve Bruce after the Michael Oliver gate scandal @ Spurs recently. Hope it happens as these chaps with the whistle can no longer be trusted anymore on the Big decisions. I for one am all for this to happen. Open to all, thoughts anyone ?
no cos that means during the game, players could try to get away with anything... I am sure that players would take a post-match red card if it meant that their team won. MAYBE if a red card was longer than a 3 match suspension.. if it was changed to wages being cut by 50% or points being docked.
They need video replays for penalties, but that is as far as I would go personally. Getting rid of refs completely sounds ridiculous.
It is a difficult one, if Video technology was brought in for these types of decision, and one decision was over turned, what would happen next, a dropped ball?
Not saying get rid of refs. But allow say each team to have 2 challenges each game. One in each half. We have all seen some shockers this season and we have just entered November. I am sure the refs would welcome it as it would remove some iof the pressure not to mention hassle. But that is as far as i would go.
I think before a penalty is awarded, or a player given a straight red card (i.e. something that is likely to have a significant bearing on the outcome) then they should take the two minutes for the fourth official to make make a video judgement.
They trialled this in our game against Aston Villa a few years ago, and we ended up with Villa being given a goal kick instead of us getting a corner just because the ref had wrongly given us a penalty.
What a farce that was. I am not a fan of technology, as a huge cricket fan admittedly we have had a summer of huge controversy in terms of technology and some very iffy decisions. Despite using technology it is still up to a human at the end of the day to make that decision, so what happens when the guy with the TV starts making wrong decisions like has happened in the cricket. I would prefer it to stay with the referee on the field, when you can add even more doubt in players will be questioning the referee and his authority, they have the hardest job in the world and they need our backing. We need more training and coaching for referees and less questioning of them. Thats without the flaws in technology and the time out of the game, and many more issues.
Goal-line technology is as far as it needs to go. In most cases the refs get decisions right, they just need a lot more support from the people above them in clarifying wha the rules actually are. Such as: In terms of a straight red card, what constitutes 'serious foul play'? What is a 'deliberate handball' because realistically no one handballs it on purpose do they? How high is a high foot? Is flying in with dangerous challenges OK if you don't end up making contact or not? Are the rules with jostling the same inside and outside the area?
After the farce of last weekend, yet another weekend of the same that happens every weekend nowadays and the now refs need help from the stands. Wes Brown SENT OFF for a great tackle. Red card to be dropped and ref.Kevin Friend suspended for 2 games Yannick Bolasi SENT OFF which imo was a 50/50 call. Another ref may have just given a yellow. Wayne Rooney and Gary Medel both got away with it imo. Everton's Mirallis should have got a red card for his awful tackle on Suarez. No doubt a straight red. In most of these cases from the weekend the correct decisons would have been made with the help of a video ref. It takes seconds to review and can be done whilst the game carries on. If the game ref is wrong he gets a message and stops the game. Simples.
